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stroke of paralysis on Sept. 3, 1892, deprived him of the use of one arm, and affected the muscles of the throat, so that, unable to swallow, he was prevented from taking nourishment. He passed peacefully away on Dec. 7, able even to the last to recognize the friends around him. Among his pall bearers were Samuel J. May, Stedman, and Lucy Larcom. The services were conducted in the plain and quiet way of the society of Friends, for like Walt Whitman and Bayard Taylor he was of Quaker parentage, and unlike them he remained a Quaker to the last. In his will he says that he was connected with that sect not only by

birthright, but also by a settled conviction of the truth of its principles and the importance of its testimonies. He always held to the prescribed garb, so far as the cut of his coat was concerned, but conformed in other ways to the custom of the world2.

REFERENCES

1 Complete Poetical and Prose Works. Riverside Edition. With Notes by Mr. Whittier, Table of First Lines, etc. 7 vols.

Boston.

2 Life of John Greenleaf Whittier, by W. J. Linton, London, 1893.

8 John Greenleaf Whittier. A Biography. By F. H. Underwood.

Boston.

4 John Greenleaf Whittier, his Life, Genius, and Writings, by W. Sloane Kennedy. Boston, 1886.

5 Life and letters of John Greenleaf Whittier. With Portrait and other Illustrations. By Samuel T. Pickard. 2 vols. Boston.

6 Poets of America, by Edmund Clarence Stedman. Boston, 1897.

7 Noted Princes, Authors, and Statesmen of our Time,

edited by James Parton, Columbus, 1885.

8 David A. Wasson, in the Atlantic Monthly, 1864.

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